The program uses Customs and Border Protection funding and is managed by FEMA. It does not use money from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund.
The hotel's Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center will also close at the same time, Adams said, and the city also plans on closing 53 other emergency shelter sites around Manhattan by June.
The Roosevelt Hotel’s “Asylum Arrival Center and Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center” is being closed by New York City, according to Mayor Eric Adams.
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